Re: Quick question about Ada code formatting.

["Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam@spam.com>]

Peter C. Chapin wrote:

>    My_Procedure (X, Y, Z);
>    A := My_Function (B);

This is what I like, if it will fit on one line, except I like named notation 
for procedures.

>    My_Procedure
>       (Very_Long, Argument_List, With_Many, Arguments);

This is what I like if it won't fit on one line with the procedure name, but 
will on a separate line, with the caveat noted above.

If it won't fit on a separate line, then I like

Procedure_Name (First_Param  => First_Param,
                 Second_Param => Second_Param,
                 ...
                 Last_Param   => Last_Param);

> In other communities (C/C++) it is more common to leave the space out 
> and also to leave the opening '(' on the same line as the procedure 
> name.

There's little from the C/++ world worth adopting.

> P.S. Is there an accepted indentation depth among Ada programmers? I've 
> seen three spaces in several places and I notice both Ada-mode in Emacs 
> and GPS use three spaces by default.

2-4 is an acceptable range, and 3 is in the middle of that. I personally use 3.

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Jeff Carter
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